Ports of LA, Long Beach seek public comment on clean truck goals
Ports of LA, Long Beach seek public comment on clean truck goals
The public is invited to comment on a 2024 draft feasibility assessment on cleaner drayage truck technologies needed to help the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach reduce air pollution in efforts to meet 2017 Clean Air Action Plan goals. Comments will be accepted through July 17.
Previous assessments were conducted in 2018 and 2021. The studies examine the current state of technology, operational characteristics, economic considerations, infrastructure availability and commercial readiness related to zero-emissions drayage trucks.
Comments on the 2024 draft feasibility assessment for drayage trucks can be emailed to caap@cleanairactionplan.org.
The 2017 CAAP established goals to get to an entirely zero-emissions truck fleet by 2035 and zero-emissions terminal equipment by 2030. As part of this strategy, the ports committed to developing feasibility assessments every three years for drayage trucks and terminal equipment to inform the ports’ approach to meeting those goals.
To support the transition to a zero-emissions drayage truck fleet, the ports implemented the Clean Truck Fund Rate, collecting $10 per twenty-foot equivalent unit from diesel trucks calling at the ports. Collection began on April 1, 2022, and funding is made available through the nonprofit Calstart to help incentivize the purchase of zero-emission drayage trucks.
The ports have also partnered with state and local agencies, such as the South Coast Air Quality Management District, Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee, and California Air Resources Board to leverage additional funding for zero emission freight movement and accelerate regional deployment of zero-emission trucks and the necessary associated regional infrastructure using these funds.
Updated in 2017, the CAAP is a comprehensive strategy for accelerating progress toward a zero-emissions future while protecting and strengthening the ports’ competitive position in the global economy. Since 2005, port-related air pollution emissions in San Pedro Bay have dropped 91% for diesel particulate matter, 72% for nitrogen oxides, and 98% for sulfur oxides.
Targets for reducing greenhouse gases from port-related sources were introduced as part of the 2017 CAAP. The document calls for the ports to reduce GHGs 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. The Clean Air Action Plan was originally approved in 2006.
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